Yikes. I for one do not want to get into a philosophical or ethical debate about open-source software. Personally, I'm not convinced that open source is a good way to go for everything. Again, I cite the confusion and potentially infinite "branches" that can develop from open source as something which can actually hinder the adoption and cause overall confusion to users. Things tend to get really tricky and convoluted when dealing with open source because every programmer and their mom want to step in and contribute to the code. Some of it is good (or great), but some of it leads you down a path of empty promises. I can't tell you how many open source apps I've used that just ceased to exist one day because the dev team moved on to something else or lost interest. That wouldn't be the case with Blender, obviously, I'm just talking in general.

As far as privacy concerns go, I think the biggest offender there is Google, yet everyone always opts in to having their information shared because it's just so convenient. Apple and Google are the real reason Microsoft is doing what they do in Win 10. If they don't, then they've just handed off the keys to those other companies as far as the future OS dominance is concerned.

Anyway, that's as far as I'll go in discussing my stand on open source. Suffice to say I'm not concerned with what Microsoft is doing so much as I am concerned with the direction of technology in general.

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